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Cultivating the Nile : the everyday politics of water in Egypt / Jessica Barnes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, Jessica, 1978-
- Series:
- New ecologies for the twenty-first century.
- New ecologies for the twenty-first century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water resources development--Egypt.
- Water resources development.
- Water-supply--Egypt.
- Water-supply.
- Water use--Egypt.
- Water use.
- Nile River.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes demonstrates how the waters of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a resource by people in and outside of Egypt. Looking at the practices of farmers, government bureaucrats, and NGO policymakers, she illuminates the range of political dynamics, social relations, and technological interventions that must be incorporated into understandings of water and its management.<BR></div>
- Contents:
- The end of a river
- The Nile's nadir : the production of scarcity
- Fluid governance : water user associations and practices of participation
- Irrigating the desert, deserting the irrigated : land reclamation at the margins
- Flows of drainage : the politics of excess
- Making Egypt's water.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357568
- 0822357569
- 9780822376217
- 0822376210
- OCLC:
- 1139360540
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